. He began to take political science _________ only when he left school.

A. strictly                B. truly                  C. carefully           D. seriously

. — When will you leave for Paris for a visit?     

—____ next month.

A. Until                 B. In                    C. At                    D. After

Out of the crowded bus       , who was dressed in a black suit and waved to a woman.

A. a tall man in his thirties stepped              B. stepped a tall man in his thirties

C. did a tall man in his thirties step             D. did a tall man step in his thirties

As an effect of the high fuel prices spent on bus transportation, some American schools are changing to a four-day week. That means longer days instead of the traditional Monday through Friday schedule.

Having been approved for three years and beginning in the fall, students in the Maccray school district in Minnesota will be in school from Tuesday to Friday. Each school day will be 65 minutes longer. Officials say the district expects to save about sixty-five thousand dollars a year in transportation costs.

In new Mexico, the first school district changed to a four-day week in 1974 because of the Arab oil boycott(抵制). Now, 17 out of 89 districts use it.

In Custer, South Dakota, students have been going to school four days a week since 1995. Superintendent(主管人)Tim Creal says the change has saved about one million dollars over just the past eight years. He sees other benefits, too. Students get more instructional time, and activities that used to take up class time are now held on non-school days. He says that in the future, the growth of online classes could make it possible to require even fewer days in school. High fuel prices are driving college students to take more online classes.

A four-day school week sounds like a great idea for students and teachers, but working parents may have to pay for child care for that fifth day.

1. According to Tim Creal, what makes it possible to have even fewer days in school?

   A. The increasing number of private tutors.

       B. The development of teaching methods.

       C. The increase in the number of online classes.

       D. The growth in the income of Americans.

2. It can be learned from the passage that______

       A. students will be in school from Monday to Tuesday.

       B. four-day week was first carried out in South Dakota.

       C. Maccray will save one million dollars every year.

       D. Minnesota state has approved the four-day week plan.

3. The passage is mainly about______

       A. some school’s four-day week plan    B. districts using a four-day week.

       C. how to save on transportation fees.   D. expense of school transportation.

It was about 600 years ago _____ the first clock with a face and an hour hand was made .

 A．that  B．until  C．before  D．when

Is ____ three hours ____ the boy___ family is poor to come to school on foot?

A. it, that, shoes  B. it, when, that  C. it for, that it takes, whose  D. it, that it takes, whose

Her dog ran out of the yard           the old lady opened the gate .

       A. moment           B. a moment         C. the moment             D. that moment

    The financial crisis will be the top issue at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The five – day meeting starts on Wednesday, January 28. More than two thousand five hundred people from ninety-six countries will discuss ways to solve the crisis.

The event gathers some of the world's most powerful political and business leaders at a small ski village in the Swiss Alps. Organizers this week announced a program built around the theme: “Shaping the Post-Crisis World."

But with the world still in crisis , there was news that no famous people from show business will be at the forum this year. Bona, the social activist and lead singer of the Irish rock group U2, usually attends. But he will not be attending this year.

Organizers expect a record forty-one heads of state or government. They include Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the prime minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga.

Among those expected from President Obama's new administration is Lawrence Summers, the director of the National Economic Council. Another is Mister Obama's national security adviser, retired general James Jones.

Members of the US Congress are also among the guest list, along with former president Clinten, a favorite at Davos. About sixty percent of those attending are business leaders.

The World Economic Forum will also discuss global warming, investment in low-carbon forms of energy in developing countries and other issues.

Klaus Schwab is the founder and chairman of the forum. He calls this one of the most important gatherings in its thirty-nine year history. He says the financial crisis should be seen as a wake-up call to change systems and ways of thinking, and to re-establish trust.

KLAUS SCHWAB: "We never will move out of the crisis if we do not re-establish confidence  which means we have to establish signposts for the future."

1．What is the main purpose of the World Economic Forum this year?

       A．To wake up people to establish signpost for the future.

       B．To solve the problems of global warning.

       C．To re-establish confidence of the leaders.

       D．To discuss how to solve the crisis.

2．The underlined word “signpost” in the last paragraph means          .

       A．symbol     B．road  C．goal  D．station

3．What does Klaus Schwab mean in the second paragraph from the bottom?

       A．The crisis requires us to change.    

       B．We should change the systems of the forum.

       C．The forum has a long history. 

       D．The crisis needs trust.

第二节：开放作文

 请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于50。

 In your spoken English class, your teacher shows you the following picture. You are asked to deseribe the picture and explain how you understand it.（请务必将情景作文写在答题卡第二页指定区域内）

．Napoleon would have taken over the world if he ______ the Battle of Waterloo．

       A．wins      B．won        C．had won        D．has won